Kommersant: Russia knows where the grenade came from, it will attack precisely

Russia is considering the possibility of selective attacks on Ukraine, in retaliation for the shelling of the Russian border city of Donetsk on Sunday.
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Ažurirano: 14.07.2014. 12:04h

Russia is considering the possibility of selective attacks on Ukraine, in retaliation for Sunday's shelling of the Russian border city of Donetsk in the Rostov region.

The Russian Kommersant, referring to a source close to the Kremlin, states that "Russia knows exactly where the shelling came from" and specified that there would be no mass actions, but "precise attacks" on the positions from where (Ukrainians) fired at Russia, the Voice of Russia reports today.

Vice-President of the Budget Committee of the Federation Council and representative of the Rostov Region Yevgeny Bushmin is of the same opinion that "precision weapons" are capable of stopping attacks from the Ukrainian side.

The Voice of Russia reminds that the suburbs of the Russian border city of Donetsk, in the Rostov region, were attacked early Sunday morning by the Ukrainian army and militia fighting to control the Izvarino border crossing.

The Ukrainians denied the attack.

The grenade was fired from Ukraine and exploded in the yard at 47 Baltijskaya Street.

Andrey Shuliatiev, born in 1967, a local resident, was killed in the explosion, while another shell wounded, in a nearby house, his daughter and mother, an 82-year-old woman who was taken to the hospital with broken bones and a concussion.

Yesterday, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called on the Ukrainian chargé d'affaires in Russia to file a strong protest against the shelling of Russian territory from the Ukrainian side of the border.

"The incident may have irreversible consequences," the Russian ministry warned in an official statement on Sunday, saying the provocation was "another act of aggression by Ukraine against sovereign Russian territory and citizens of the Russian Federation."

Intense fighting around Luhansk

According to the AP agency, the fighting has intensified around the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk, as the government forces from Kiev have stepped up their offensive aimed at breaking the rebel lines and taking over the territories from the pro-Russian fighters.

Ukraine's Defense Ministry announced today that government troops have taken over several rebel-held villages around Luhansk and reopened the corridor to the airport.

A spokeswoman for the so-called People's Republic of Luhansk told AP that separatist fighters attacked a Ukrainian army unit in the village of Heorhivka, 10 kilometers from the airport, killing at least three Ukrainian soldiers.

In the past two weeks, Ukrainian government forces have managed to recapture half of the territory held by pro-Russian fighters, who had pushed them all the way to their strongholds around the eastern Ukrainian cities of Luhansk and Donetsk.

Romodanovsky: Almost half a million Ukrainians defected to Russia

Almost 500.000 Ukrainians have fled to Russia since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, while 130.000 of them applied for a longer stay, and 30.000 for asylum.

This was stated by the head of the Russian Federal Migration Service, Konstantin Romodanovsky, as reported by the Russian news agency Interfax today.

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